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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Rights Hatred of California Is Really Fear of a Future that Already Is Working
Back before the country lost its mind, journalists sent to report on California first reflexively noted its eccentricities, then deployed an entire lexicon of wondering clichés to describe the importance of what theyd seen: The Golden State, they wrote, was studded with signposts to the new, the place where the future came to happen.
This, though, is the age of Trump and to his supporters California has become an outlier, a pariah no longer part of the real America. The states crime was to prefer Hillary Clintons candidacy in such numbers that she won the popular ballot by nearly 3 million votes, thereby denying Donald Trump a democratic mandate for his intended transformation of the United States, its economy, trade relationships and foreign policy. In fact, Clintons 48% to 46% victory in the popular count has become the basis for a new right-wing defense of the Electoral College.
In a piece cited across the Internets conservative news sites, Investors Daily wrote, While Clintons overall margin looks large and impressive, it is due to Clintons huge margin of victory in one state California where she got a whopping 4.3 million more votes than Trump. California is the only state, in fact, where Clintons margin of victory was bigger than President Obamas in 2012 61.5% vs. Obamas 60%. But California is the exception that proves the true genius of the Electoral College which was designed to prevent regional candidates from dominating national elections.
California has been called the Left Coast for quite a while, he wrote. Just about everyone in Silicon Valley except Peter Thiel and in Hollywood except Pat Sajak supported Clinton. White middle class families have been pretty well priced out of the state by high taxes and housing costs, and the Hispanic and Asian immigrants who have replaced them vote far more Democratic.
Barone argued that the case against abolition of the Electoral College is one suggested by the Framers fears that voters in one large but highly atypical state could impose their will on a contrary-minded nation. That largest state in 1787 was Virginia, home of four of the first five presidents. New York and California, by remaining closely in line with national opinion up through 1996, made the issue moot.
http://www.tim-rutten.com/the-rights-hatred-of-california-is-really-fear-of-a-future-that-already-is-working/
nolabels
(13,133 posts)Or another words, going through hard-knocks from decades earlier sometimes makes one more wise to the choices at hand.
It isn't hatred for others that drive many Californians but more of what could become of ALL of our possibilities.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,986 posts)roamer65
(36,745 posts)Trying to delegitimize a state as large as CA is a recipe for civil war. It's lunacy.
AngryAmish
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I have not played Cypress Point either.
Best golf in California.